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Katie Boulter of Great Britain returns a forehand shot to Coco Gauff of the United States during their women's singles match of the China Open tennis tournament, at the National Tennis Center in Beijing, Sunday, Sept. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

Katie Boulter advances to the Pan Pacific Open semifinals and will face Sofia Kenin

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This satellite image from Planet Labs PBC shows what appears to be a sunken Chinese submarine at a shipyard near Wuhan, China, June 15, 2024. (Planet Labs PBC via AP) ** FILE **

Sunken Chinese submarine was a new hybrid nuclear-conventional attack boat, U.S. says

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

This 2020 electron microscope image made available by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases shows a Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 particle isolated from a patient, in a laboratory in Fort Detrick, Md. The coronavirus mutant widely known as stealth omicron is now causing more than a third of new omicron cases around the world. But scientists still don’t know how it could affect the future of the pandemic. (NIAID/NIH via AP, File)

Answers prove elusive as scientists weigh lab leak or animal source for COVID

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

A security person moves journalists away from the Wuhan Institute of Virology after a World Health Organization team arrived for a field visit in Wuhan in China's Hubei province on Feb. 3, 2021. The hunt for COVID-19 origins has gone dark in China. An AP investigation drawing on thousands of pages of undisclosed emails and documents and dozens of interviews found feuding officials and fear of blame ended meaningful Chinese and international efforts to trace the virus almost as soon as they began, despite years of public statements to the contrary. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

Biden administration stops funding to U.S. firm that paid for Wuhan research

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

A security person moves journalists away from the Wuhan Institute of Virology after a World Health Organization team arrived for a field visit in Wuhan in China's Hubei province on Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021. The WHO team is investigating the origins of the coronavirus pandemic has visited two disease control centers in the province. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Research group used U.S. funds for dangerous virus experiments in China lab

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

A security person moves journalists away from the Wuhan Institute of Virology after a World Health Organization team arrived for a field visit in Wuhan in China's Hubei province on Feb. 3, 2021. The hunt for COVID-19 origins has gone dark in China. An AP investigation drawing on thousands of pages of undisclosed emails and documents and dozens of interviews found feuding officials and fear of blame ended meaningful Chinese and international efforts to trace the virus almost as soon as they began, despite years of public statements to the contrary. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

Toxic: China clamps down on politically charged COVID origin research

By Dave Kang and Maria Cheng - Associated Press

A security person moves journalists away from the Wuhan Institute of Virology after a World Health Organization team arrived for a field visit in Wuhan in China's Hubei province on Feb. 3, 2021. The hunt for COVID-19 origins has gone dark in China. An AP investigation drawing on thousands of pages of undisclosed emails and documents and dozens of interviews found feuding officials and fear of blame ended meaningful Chinese and international efforts to trace the virus almost as soon as they began, despite years of public statements to the contrary. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

Toxic: How the search for the origins of COVID-19 turned politically poisonous

By Dake Kang and Maria Cheng - Associated Press

A security person moves journalists away from the Wuhan Institute of Virology after a World Health Organization team arrived for a field visit in Wuhan in China's Hubei province on Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021. The WHO team is investigating the origins of the coronavirus pandemic has visited two disease control centers in the province. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

President of EcoHealth Alliance to testify to Congress; firm tied to risky research at Wuhan lab

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Security personnel gather near the entrance of the Wuhan Institute of Virology during a visit by the World Health Organization team in Wuhan, China, Feb. 3, 2021. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

Former intel officials pan DNI report on virus that says origin in wild rather than government lab

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines introduces President Joe Biden during a visit to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence in McLean, Va., July 27, 2021. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Intel report on coronavirus cannot find direct evidence of lab leak

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Zheng Congying leaves federal court, May 31, 2023, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. Zheng was one of three men accused of participating in an escalating series of scare tactics aimed at repatriating a former Chinese official who was living quietly in New Jersey. Zheng was convicted of stalking and stalking conspiracy but acquitted of the other charges. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

3 men convicted in U.S. trial that scrutinized China’s ‘Operation Fox Hunt’ repatriation campaign

By Jennifer Peltz - Associated Press

Security personnel manned the entrance of the Wuhan Institute of Virology during a Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021, visit by a team from the World Health Organization. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Wuhan virus lab got more U.S. money than previously reported

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Security personnel gather near the entrance to the Wuhan Institute of Virology during a visit by the World Health Organization team in Wuhan in China's Hubei province on Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021. The WHO team is investigating the origins of the coronavirus pandemic has visited two disease control centers in the province. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan) **FILE**

National Institutes of Health cuts off Wuhan Institute of Virology from taxpayer funding

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

In this file photo, security personnel gather near the entrance of the Wuhan Institute of Virology during a visit by the World Health Organization team in Wuhan in China's Hubei province on Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan) ** FILE **

Sen. Marco Rubio releases COVID-19 origins report detailing suspicious behavior in China

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Illustration on internal policy changes at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Congress can cure ‘equity’ outbreak at National Institutes of Health

By Stewart Whitson

In this file photo, security personnel gather near the entrance of the Wuhan Institute of Virology during a visit by the World Health Organization team in Wuhan in China's Hubei province on Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan) ** FILE **

Evidence of virus lab leak is convincing, says ex-intel director

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe, from left, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs David Feith and Mark Lowenthal, former Assistant Director of Central Intelligence for Analysis and Production, are sworn in during a Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic investigation of the origins of COVID-19, Tuesday, April 18, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Evidence mounts Wuhan lab spawned COVID-19 outbreak, leak occurred earlier than first suspected

By Joseph Clark and Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Shen Hongbing, the director of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, speaks at a press conference on the origins of COVID-19 at the State Council Information Office in Beijing, Saturday, April 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

China health officials lash out at WHO, defend virus search

By Joe McDonald - Associated Press

Fauci and the COVID-19 cover-up illustration by Greg Groesch / The Washington Times

We finally know the origin of COVID-19

By Joseph Curl

FILE - In this file photo dated Sunday, Jan. 31, 2021, security personnel clear the way for a convoy of the World Health Organization team to enter the Huanan Seafood Market on the third day of field visit in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province. International scientists have examined previously unavailable genetic data from samples collected at a market in China close to where the first human cases of COVID-19 were detected and said they have found suggestions the pandemic originated from animals, not a lab. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

New COVID origins data point to raccoon dogs in China market

By Dake Kang and Maria Cheng - Associated Press